The crucial discovery comes from a famous fossil bed in Liaoning province.

这个十分重要的发现来自辽宁省的一个文明的的化石层。

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The verified reserves of oil and natural gas are relatively small, while oil shale, coal-bed gas and other unconventional fossil energy resources have huge potential for exploitation.

已探明的石油、天然气资源储量相对不足，油页岩、煤层气等非常规化石能源储量潜力较大。

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But, at about six hectares (15 acres), it already looks like the most important late-Cretaceous fossil bed in the world.

ECONOMIST: Dinosaurs

The techniques needed to extract fossil and climatic evidence from this lake bed, and to search for life forms that have adapted to survive in such hostile conditions, would also work on Mars so it is an ideal location to test robots and even to train would-be astronauts.

ECONOMIST: Planetary pretenders

In the fossil fuel industry, both enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and enhanced coal bed methane recovery use compressed CO2 as an input.

FORBES: New Markets Emerge for Carbon Dioxide